Former Greek Premier

Former Greek premier Samaras is expelled from the ruling conservative party

Former Greek Prime Minister and lawmaker Antonis Samaras has been expelled from the ruling New Democracy party over his persistent criticism of government policies

World - ABC News - 11 hours ago

Former Greek opposition leader Kasselakis departs left-wing Syriza

Stefanos Kasselakis, a businessman who burst into Greek politics over a year ago, says he's leaving left-wing Syriza, the country’s main opposition party he had led, and forming his own

World - ABC News - November 9

Former Greek PM expelled from ruling New Democracy party

Hardline nationalist Antonis Samaras ousted over persistent criticism of government policies. Former Greek prime minister and lawmaker Antonis Samaras was expelled from the ruling New Democracy ...

World - The Guardian - 11 hours ago

Great Premier League goals against former clubs

BBC Sport takes a look back at some great goals scored in the Premier League by players facing their former clubs, including strikes by Wayne Rooney, Mohamed Salah, Frank Lampard and Kevin de Bruyne.

Yiannis Boutaris, winemaker and maverick former mayor of the Greek city of Thessaloniki, has died

Yiannis Boutaris was a winemaker who served two terms as mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, and shook up its conservative image

World - ABC News - 6 days ago

Wife of Pakistan's imprisoned former premier Imran Khan freed on bail

The wife of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan was released from a high-security prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, a day after a court granted her bail in a ...

World - ABC News - October 24

Pakistan court rejects acquittal plea from former premier and wife in graft case

A Pakistani court has rejected a plea for acquittal from former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been held in prison for more than a year in a graft case

World - ABC News - 2 days ago

A strike by Greek teachers triggers a broader labor dispute

Striking Greek public school teachers have marched in protest through central Athens as tensions grow between labor organizations and the center-right government over workers’ rights

World - ABC News - October 23

UK police to investigate treatment of England fans

Local police in Athens are said to have used riot shields and tear gas to control England fans before the Nations League fixture with Greece.

Vasso Papandreou, champion of women in Greek politics, dies at 79

Vasso Papandreou, a trailblazing Greek politician who served as a government minister, European commissioner and leading advocate for women’s representation in politics, has died at her home in an ...

World - ABC News - October 19

The Bucks are at a tipping point with Giannis

Giannis Antetokounmpo has tiptoed around the idea of leaving Milwaukee before. Here's a "Hot Take We Might Actually Believe": he puts his foot down this season.

Sports - Yahoo Sports - October 23

Heineken liable for competition violations by Greek unit, Dutch court rules

Judgment over infractions stretching back to 1990s leaves brewer open to hundreds of millions of euros in potential damages

Business - Financial Times - October 24

Why encouraging cruise ships to dock at Amorgos would be a Greek tragedy

A policy of restricting huge liners visiting popular Cyclades islands could have the unintended consequence of diverting mass tourism towards quieter islands. Imagine the perfect Greek island, a ...

World - The Guardian - November 7

Vardis Vardinoyannis, Greek business magnate and Kennedy family friend, dies at 90

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World - ABC News - 4 days ago

Greek and Turkish coast guards aim to boost cooperation against migrant smuggling

Senior Greek and Turkish coast guard officials have agreed to boost cooperation in restricting one of the main illegal migration routes into Europe

World - ABC News - 3 days ago

Vardis Vardinoyannis, Greek Tycoon With Ties to the Kennedys, Dies at 90

He built his family’s oil-refining operation into one of the largest companies in the country, and then used his wealth to benefit charitable causes.

Business - The New York Times - 3 days ago

Yiannis Boutaris, Vintner, Animal Defender and Greek Mayor, Dies at 82

A colorful figure in Thessaloniki, he tried to reconcile the city’s painful history with its Turkish and Jewish communities, and he extended a hand to his country’s foes.

World - The New York Times - 15 hours ago

Greek police data leak exposes details of elite crime-fighting unit members

A data breach has exposed personal information of over 500 officers from a newly launched elite crime fighting agency in Greece

World - ABC News - October 18

2 dead and 22 rescued after migrant boat runs into trouble in rough weather near a Greek island

Greece's coast guard says a search and rescue operation off the coast of the eastern Greek island of Samos has recovered the bodies of two people reported missing overnight after a boat carrying 24 ...

World - ABC News - October 21

Greek ferry crews call off strike early ahead of three-day holiday weekend

Greek ferry crews have curtailed a four-day strike by several hours, announcing Friday they would go back on the job in the early afternoon instead of at midnight

World - ABC News - October 25

Greek leaders tell German president a WWII reparations claim is very much alive

Greek leaders have revived a long-standing demand for war reparations stemming from Nazi Germany’s World War II occupation of Greece, during a visit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

World - ABC News - October 30

Greek anti-terror squad investigates big blast that killed a man in an Athens apartment

Greece’s anti-terrorist squad is investigating a strong explosion that wrecked an Athens apartment, killing one man and severely injuring a woman

World - ABC News - October 31

Greek police say fatal Athens apartment blast was likely caused by improvised bomb

Greek police say that an explosion in an Athens apartment that killed a man and severely wounded a woman appears to have been caused by an improvised bomb

World - ABC News - November 1

Eighty years after thousands of Greek Jews were murdered, Thessaloniki’s Holocaust museum is finally set to open

Germany is among donors committing millions to the long-awaited project, to be completed in 2026, which will tell story of those who perished. Few places are more representative of the horrors that ...

World - The Guardian - November 3

Albania aims to join the European Union by 2030, prime minister tells expatriates in Greek city

Albania hopes to join the European Union by 2030, Prime Minister Edi Rama has told an enthusiastic crowd of some 2,000 supporters gathered at a hotel in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki

World - ABC News - November 3

Greek police arrest third suspect over bombing as minister warns of new generation of extremists

Greek police have arrested a third suspect in connection with an explosion in central Athens last week that authorities have blamed on an alleged aspiring domestic extremist group

World - ABC News - November 4

Greek police seize large cache of explosives and arrest 5 in organized crime crackdown

Police in Greece have seized large quantities of explosives and firearms following multiple raids in Athens to dismantle an criminal weapons distribution network

World - ABC News - November 5

Bournemouth v Arsenal: Premier League – live

Premier League updates from the 5.30pm BST kick-off Live scoreboard | Email your thoughts to Rob Andoni Iraola’s pre-match thoughts . We had our chances against Liverpool and Chelsea but we ...

World - The Guardian - October 19

Wolves 1-2 Manchester City: Premier League – live reaction

Premier League updates from the 2pm BST kick-off Live scoreboard | And mail Daniel with your thoughts I’m really looking forward to seeing how the midfield battle goes. Lemina, Andre and ...

World - The Guardian - October 20

Liverpool 2-1 Chelsea: Premier League – as it happened

Curtis Jones scored the winner and won the penalty for Mo Salah’s opener as Chelsea threatened but came up short. First, a minute’s applause for Peter Cormack, a star midfielder for Bill Shankly’s ...

World - The Guardian - October 20

Vietnam Premier Pushes for Higher 2025 Growth Targets

World - Yahoo News - October 21

Animal rights protesters disrupt Pharrell Williams film premiere

A biopic of the singer, titled Piece by Piece, was delayed at the London Film Festival on Sunday.

Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend

A reunion for Steve Cooper, an opportunity for Matheus Nunes and a dilemma for Mikel Arteta. Two years ago it was this fixture that looked to have brought an end to the Steve Cooper era at ...

World - The Guardian - October 24

'I need to go to team at bottom of table in England'

Jose Mourinho says he wants to manage a team at the bottom of the table in England when he leaves Fenerbahce so he "does not play in Uefa competition".

Leicester v Nottingham Forest: Premier League – live

Premier League updates from 8pm BST kick-off Get in touch: send your thoughts to Scott via email 5 min: Moreno and Hudson-Odoi one-two their way down the left, the former winning the first ...

World - The Guardian - October 25

Everton v Fulham: Premier League – live

A late, late headed equaliser from Everton substitute Beto cancelled out Alex Iwobi’s opener against his former club . The Premier League table: Today’s results, not least Brentford’s ...

World - The Guardian - October 26

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